Category: Life

While the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre and his parrot, Donald Trump, talk about arming teachers and “hardening targets,” just remember this: With an active shooter in progress, armed Broward County Sheriff’s deputies took up defensive positions outside the school, refusing to

Sad. Traumatizing. Disheartening. Disbelief. Pride. Just a few of the emotions I have experienced over the last 11 days from over 2500 miles away from the Parkland, Florida shooting. Sad that it has happened again; traumatizing for the students faculty

Well, it has happened again and it is only getting worse. In this era of gun violence one-upsmanship, a madman terrorist opens fire on a country music festival from the 32nd story window of a Las Vegas hotel killing 50

The August 16, 2012, issue of Rolling Stone Magazine contained an article written by staff writer Joe Hagan entitled, “The Long, Lawless Ride of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.” The full text of that article can be read here. This blog post

Edited August 26, 2017. Remember the “birtherism movement” going back many years? Claiming that Obama, a black man of mixed heritage whose mother was born in Kenya, was not entitled to be president because he could not prove that he

As a wee lad of 18 years of age, some 46 years ago, during my freshman year at Oklahoma State University, I came down with some malady, the name of which I cannot now remember, but substantial enough to cause

If you are a follower of this blog, you may remember that back in April I took a trip to Washington, DC to visit my friend William. Easter Sunday was set aside for a car trip to Shockeysville, Virginia, the

This year, perhaps more than any other in past memory, I have to wonder exactly what there is to celebrate on this Independence Day. There is a tyrant in the White House and a Congress, both House and Senate, who